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Gun sales have exploded. Funny, that didn’t make us all safer.

noonereal said:
I want gun slaughter stopped. From suicide to neighbors killing neighbors instead of punching them in the mouth.
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By "stopped", do you mean a homicide rate of 0.0?
 
Carrying a firearm in an urban or suburban area is the act of someone who is weak and fearful. But to open carry is to display your fundamental insecurity in order to intimidate or troll others. It is a temporary, false feeling of power in an otherwise pathetic existence.

I try to avoid damaged people.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
Carrying a firearm in an urban or suburban area is the act of someone who is weak and fearful. But to open carry is to display your fundamental insecurity in order to intimidate or troll others. It is a temporary, false feeling of power in an otherwise pathetic existence.

I try to avoid damaged people.
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Aren't urban areas the most dangerous areas in the country? Isn't that where most of the violence occurs where the expectation of have a need to defend oneself would be at the highest?
 
Rucker61 said:
Aren't urban areas the most dangerous areas in the country?
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No, I don’t think so. Rural America is more dangerous. And that is relative danger.

Regardless, the danger is not anywhere near the fear response threshold which demands an individual carry a firearm.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
No, I don’t think so. Rural America is more dangerous. And that is relative danger.
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Not according to CDC.

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Bok_Tukalo said:
Regardless, the danger is not anywhere near the fear response threshold which demands an individual carry a firearm.
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You don't get to make the call. If it's dangerous enough to need more gun control, it's dangerous enough to carry a firearm. Every state allows concealed carry.
 
Rucker61 said:
Not according to CDC.

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You don't get to make the call. If it's dangerous enough to need more gun control, it's dangerous enough to carry a firearm. Every state allows concealed carry.
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Do you have a link as opposed to a pic? I have read the opposite.

And of course it’s not my call to make; outside of the democratic process. Weak and fearful people with cope with their lives as best they can. I will just try to avoid them.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
Do you have a link as opposed to a pic? I have read the opposite.

And of course it’s not my call to make; outside of the democratic process. Weak and fearful people with cope with their lives as best they can. I will just try to avoid them.
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Your perception of the "fear response threshold" is the proper one. Those with a lower perception are "weak and fearful".

Of course this means you would be "weak and fearful" to those with a higher perception than your own.

Unless you have the highest perception possible. In which case, the entire world is weak and fearful relative to your standard.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
Carrying a firearm in an urban or suburban area is the act of someone who is weak and fearful. But to open carry is to display your fundamental insecurity in order to intimidate or troll others. It is a temporary, false feeling of power in an otherwise pathetic existence.

I try to avoid damaged people.
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such a stereotype is the product of intellectually lazy thinking and is pathetically stupid
 
RF667799 said:
Your perception of the "fear response threshold" is the proper one. Those with a lower perception are "weak and fearful".

Of course this means you would be "weak and fearful" to those with a higher perception than your own.

Unless you have the highest perception possible. In which case, the entire world is weak and fearful relative to your standard.
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Makes sense. Where’s the line between reasonable caution and irrational fear? Well, not so much a line as a broad area of everything in between.

Maybe guys too scared to walk out their front door without a firearm think I have thrill issues because I dare to go grocery shopping unarmed.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
No, I don’t think so. Rural America is more dangerous. And that is relative danger.

Regardless, the danger is not anywhere near the fear response threshold which demands an individual carry a firearm.
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that makes the idiotic Assumption that honest people merely carrying guns create harm.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
Makes sense. Where’s the line between reasonable caution and irrational fear? Well, not so much a line as a broad area of everything in between.

Maybe guys too scared to walk out their front door without a firearm think I have thrill issues because I dare to go grocery shopping unarmed.
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Maybe people with multiple fire extinguishers think I'm foolhardy because I only have a couple. The extremes might be a little more apparent. But reasonable caution might look like an extreme from a position that looks like extremism from another direction.

And what might be a reasonably cautious position can be creatively described to invoke extremism.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
Do you have a link as opposed to a pic? I have read the opposite.

And of course it’s not my call to make; outside of the democratic process. Weak and fearful people with cope with their lives as best they can. I will just try to avoid them.
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Use the (restricted) database access.

 
Bok_Tukalo said:
Makes sense. Where’s the line between reasonable caution and irrational fear? Well, not so much a line as a broad area of everything in between.

Maybe guys too scared to walk out their front door without a firearm think I have thrill issues because I dare to go grocery shopping unarmed.
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King Soopers in Boulder. Kroger grocery near Memphis. Tops in Buffalo.

Maybe you just aren’t paying attention.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
Carrying a firearm in an urban or suburban area is the act of someone who is weak and fearful. But to open carry is to display your fundamental insecurity in order to intimidate or troll others. It is a temporary, false feeling of power in an otherwise pathetic existence.

I try to avoid damaged people.
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I would've stuck 'paranoid' in there too, Bok.

Nevertheless, solid post, sir (y)
 
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